capote

Example Sentences

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The shape has almost the same shape as the capote for bullfighting, in beautiful pink silk, with yellow or blue in the back.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2015

"I could have presented the capote when the head passed, as others do, but I wanted to do it honestly, because the bull was honest," Celestino explains.

From Time Magazine Archive

It really was Horace Osborne, but he was almost unrecognizable in his muffling capote, long hair, and a three months' growth of beard.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie

The infantry uniform is almost exactly that of the French—long grey capote, blue tunic with the number of the regiment on the collar, and red trousers.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

This rug is to the Montenegrino what the capote is to the Greek and Albanian, his companion in all weathers—his shelter against the storm, and his bed at night.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various